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A plume of smoke rises over Beirut's southern suburbs on September 28, 2024, after an Israeli bombardment targeted Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. (Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Images)
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An Israeli fighter jet flies near Tel Aviv on September 26, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP via Getty Images)
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The remains of an exploded pager in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 18, 2024. (Getty Images)
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A memorial is set near the site of an attack that killed three people in Solingen, Germany, on August 26, 2024. (Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Liel Leibovitz
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Joel Rayburn
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Zineb Riboua
Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Abram N. Shulsky
Senior Fellow
Mike Watson
Fellow and Deputy Director, Center for Strategy and American Statecraft
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
